Ice-cream freezer.



w. c. BROADWELL. ICE CREAM FREEZER.

' APPLIOATION FILED MAR.19,1910.

' 979,823, Patented Dec.27, 1910.

2 SHEETS-'BHEET 1.

awwmtoz QmiM pemo W. C. BROADWELL.

ICE CREAM FREEZER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.19,1910.

Patented Dec. 27, 1910 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

UNITED STATES rarnn 1 OFFICE.

WILLIAM C. BROADWELL, or DETROIT, IVlIII-IIGAN, ASSIGNOR T0 DAVID P. wILsoN,

0F nn'rnorr, MICHIGAN.

ICE-CREAM FREEZER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 27, 1910.

Application filed March 19, 1910. Serial No. 550,438.

wELL, a citizen of the United-States of America, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ice-Cream Freezers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to a freezer for icecream and similar materials and more particularly to that class of suchydevices in which a cylinder for containing the freezing medium-is employed and the material to be. frozen is applied to the exterior of the cyl inder and after freezing is'scraped there-' from as the cylinder is turned.

The object of this invention is to provide a very simple, cheap and compact device for the purpose, providing a convenient and sanitaryarrangement and embodying certain new and useful features as hereinafter more fully described reference being had to the accompanying drawings in which, I Figure 1 is a perspective view of a device embodying the invention showing the casing open; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section through the casing; Fig. 3 a transverse vertical section of the same; Fig. 4 a perspective view of one of the pans detached; Fig. 5 a sectional perspective view of one of the pan rolls; and Fig. 6 a perspective view of one ofthe cups detached.

As shown in the drawings 1 represents a suitable casing having a semi-circular hinge top .2, and a glass door 3 forming the front of the casing, which door is hinged at its lower edge to the bottom of the casing. Suitable bearings are provided in the ends of the casing one half 4 of each bearing being on the casing ends and the other half 5 being on thetop 2 so that by raising the top or cover, the cylinder 6 which issupported by trunnions and 8 extending from its ends and engaging the bearings, may be readily lifted from the casing.

The cylinder is preferably formed of glass with a smooth straight periphery and in one end of the cylinder is a fill opening 9 surrounded by an externally screwthreaded flange engaged by a screwcap 10 to close the opening. The trunnion 8 is formed integral with the cap 10 and extends outward from the axis thereof and is provided with an extended end to which a crank 11 is detachl ably secured for turning the cylinder in its bearings. In the bottom of the casing is located a series of pans 12 which are held in place against lateral movement by guide ribs 13011 the casing bottom. Each of the pans 19. is provided with suitable open bearings 1% upon each side wall to receive a shaft 15 of a roll 16 adapted to engage the lower side of the cylinder 6. These rolls are each held in yielding contact 'with the surface of the cylinder by providing each roll within an enlarged axial bore 17 into the ends of which are fitted rings 18 of rubber or other suitable yielding material'and each of these rings is provided with an axial opening to. receive the shaft 15, sald roll. being thus supported uponits shaft: by the yielding rings or bushings which fill the ends of the axial I bore of the rolland prevent dirt and cream or other material from getting into the bore around the shaft.

A series of cups 19 preferably formed of sheet metal which may be plated to make the same sanitary and pleasing to the eye, are adapted to be supported upon the forward ends of the pans 12, the base 20 of each cup being formed with turned down flanges 21 to engage the sides of-the pans and hold the cups in place. Each cup is preferably of rectangular form at its upper end with straight upper side edges 22 which meet the end edges atright angles, the corner angles being preferably cut downward from the upper edge of the cup a short distance and rounded off to form round corners to the upper edge and provide yielding edges on the cup, one of which is adapted to engage the cylinder 6 when the cup is in place and serve to scrape the frozen material from the surface of the cylinder. Each cup is so proportioned thatwhen it is in place with one flange or edge 22 against the cylinder its opposite flange will be engaged by the door 3 and the cup thus forced and held in contact with the surface of the cylinder by the closing of the glassdoor or front.

In operating the machine ice or other freezing medium is placed in the cylinder by removing the screw cap 10. The cap is then again screwed in place and the cylinder placed in the bearings 4 and the cover lowered to hold it in place. One or all of the pans 12 containing material to be frozen is then shoved into the casing between the where it will quickly freeze andas thefcyll H 7 v cupsflby'the' edges thereofcontacting the cylinder. As many difierent kinds of frozen material may be made at one time as there I are pans, and this material is taken directly may-I served thus. obviating the necessity "for separate servingdishes and the second ing or refilling and is very'sanitary.

' comprising a casing, a hinged top for the contact with the cylinder.

the pans by the rolls 16 and deposited'uponrial from the cylinder the device has but few ribs 13 with the rolls 16 in place in the pans. The cups 19 are then set in place upon the forward ends of the pans and the door 3 closed to hold the cups with their, edges in. By turning the cylinder material will be carried upfronr the surface of the cylinder in a thin layer inder is turned-will be scraped'oif into the from the cylinderbythe cups in which it handling of the frozen creams or ices.

' The construction. of' the device is such that it may be readilytak en apart for cleanthe cups form means' for scraping the mateparts and a cheap construction, is secured. The operation of the device may be viewed through the glass front or door which door. also serves to hold, the cups in place and permits the readyinsertion and removal of the several pans.

Having thus fully tion what I claim is v 1. A device of the character described comprising a casing, a rotatable cylinder within the casing adapted to contain a freezing medium, a pan inthe casing below the'cylinder, a roll within the pan engaging the lower side of the cylinder, and a cup supported by the forward end of the pan with its upper edge in contact with the surface of the cylinder to scrape frozen material therefrom. v

2. A device of the character described described my inven-a casing, said casingand top tbeing provided with mating bearings,- a cylinder provided with a trunnion at one end toe-ngage one of the bearings, and provided with a fill opening at its opposite end, a capfoi' closing the-opening, a trunnion on the cap to engage the other of said bearings, a series of parallel ribs on the bottom of the casing, a series of pans betweensaid ribs, a' hinge door to close the front of the casing and through which front the pans may be removed, a series of rolls detachably su portedfwithin the pans to engage the'cy lnder,

and a series of receptacles detachably supported upon the forward end of the pans to receive frozen material from the cylinder.

3. A device of the character described, comprising a casing, a rotatable cylinder detachably supported withinthe casing, a

pan beneath the cylinder for. containing material to be frozen and rovided with open bearings on its side wal a roll to en gage said cylinder formed with an enlarged axial bore, a shaft extending through the bore, yielding rings on the shaft fitting within the ends 'of the bore, and a receptacle within the casing to receive frozen material from the surface of the cylinder.

4. A device of the character described comprising a casing having an open top and front side, a bin e cover to close the top, said cover being ormed with mating hearing members, a cylinder provided with trunnions atits ends to engage said bear.-

ings, a series of pans detachably supported adapted to engage the cups and hold the same with their yielding edges in contact 7 with the cylinder.

In testimony whereof I 'afix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

t WILLIAM C. BROADWELL. Witnesses:

ANNA M. Donn, ANNA M. SHANNON. 

